Steering-wheel lock for automobiles



' P. McGUlRE.

STEERING WHEEL LOOK FOR AUTOMOBILES. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 7.1919.

"1,329,913, Patented Feb. 3,1920.

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PATRICK MCGUIRE, or SUPERIOR, WISCONSIN.

' of the locking device shown in an operi posidetachable device which may STEERING-WHEEL LOCK FOR AUTOMOBILES.

for automobiles and has special reference to 'an attachment conveniently applicable to the steering wheel of an autdmobile whereby the controlling levers thereof may be safely housed. against interference by unauthorized persons, the steering wheel also being in cased within the same housing.

The principal object is to produce a simple be conveniently carriedwithin' the vehicle. f

' Other objects and advantages of' the pe- 7 culiar construction will appear in. the further description thereof.

' ,In the accompanying drawings forming part of this application and in which like reference characters designate like parts:

Figure 1 is a plan view of the underside tion, and

Fig. 2 is a side elevation the" device as applied to the steering wheel of anautomobile." A U i j 1 represents a thin substantially concavo- I convex disk having rigidly attached, in any 1 half of a somewhat similarly-shaped portion I 2, with a truncated cone-shaped central pordesired manner, to one-half'thereof, one

, tion 3. The opposite, half of theportion 2 is hingedly attached, as at 4', to the half which isrigidly fixed to' the-disk land may be opened' or closed as desired, the two halves being held together byany form of suitable hasp and staple 5 and 6, secured" with a lock, .as at 7. The movable half of the portion 2 overlaps the edge of,the diskl, ithaving a groove, indicated at 8, therein for such purpose-and the flange about said Y Y able half in the position about'the disk, which materially assists in the quick and ready closing-of the housing about the autofelt-,or the like, which may be provided upon the inner faces of both opposite halves of the groove, adj acent the hinge 4, is cohsiderably extended inwardly, forming a projection 9 which acts as a guide in bringing the movmobile whee v I have illustrated, at 10, a lining, such as Specification of Letters Patent. 1

This invention relates to locking devices mentioned disk and the other 'hingedly attached to the fixed J 'Jcumferential flange carried by. the hingedfi half which, whenengaging. t he,disk, will overlap the edge of same, and; an extension Patented Feb. 3, 1920.

Application filed June 7, 1919. Serial No. 302,522.

housing, to prevent scratching or marring in any way the steering wheel, as well as making a soft and to the wheel. The entire housing may be constructed of light metal, such as aluminum, or the like as desired.

While I have described a. specific form of structure in the embodiment here shown, it

is to be understood that various modificat1ons within the scope of the claims may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Having thus described my invention, what,

I claim as new'and desire to secure by Let ters Patent, isz' I 1. A steering wheel locking device of the character described comprising in combina- 'tion, a solid disk, a second'disk spaced there- 7 from one-half of which is rigidly fixed about'its circumferential edge to the first half being half, a cirof" said flange adjacent the hinge, that, will first engage the edge of the disk and act as flange, substantially as described. Y 2. A steering wheellocking device of the character described, comprising in combination' a substantially concavo-convex disk,- onehalf of a similarly-shapedidisksecurely 90 fixed to the first mentioned, disk and the other half of the second mentioned disk being hinged to the fixed half and-cooperatively engageable therewith and with the first men- 3 tioned diskrsubstantially as and for. the pur- 5 pose. described; I

3-. A steering wheel locking device of the character described, comprising, in combina tion, a disk, a second disk spaced therefronn one-half of which is rigidly fixed about its 1Q circumferential edgeto the first mentioned 7 disk'and the other'half being hingedly at tached to the fixed half, and a circumferential flange carried by the hinged half which, when 'engaging the disk, will vent-1 5 .10!

same, substantially as described. s

Intestimony .whereof I have hereunto affixed my signature in the presencev of two witnesses. f

S. GEO. Srnvruas.

pleasing article to apply 60 a guide to the succeeding portion bfthe Y f PATRICKMQGUIRE. Witnesses:-""" 

